A Japanese form, the Dodoitsu was developed at the end of the Edo Period. It has no meter nor rhyme constraints, instead, the focus is on syllables. The poem consists of four lines with 7-syllables in lines 1, 2, and 3 and 5-syllables in line 4. The Dodoitsu often utilizes the themes of love or … Continue reading Dodoitsu Notes
Category: Form Poetry
Spring Sunshine
The years keep passing and time cannot stand still I wonder how the warmth of your love holds me Flowing through my body as it always will Like spring sunshine gently warms the early bee I think of your kiss; how it made my heart thrill And how you chose to love me and let me see
Rispetto Notes
An old Italian form, the Rispetto is comprised of two quatrains written in iambic tetrameter or 8-syllable lines. They were originally poems written in respect or admiration of a woman, however, over the centuries it has offered itself for other subjects Rhyme Scheme: abab ccdd Example Moonlit Gypsy by JezzieG On moonlit nights she dances … Continue reading Rispetto Notes
Sicilian Sonnet Notes
Structure: Octet and sestetMeter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic linesRhyme Scheme: abababab cdcdcd Example Old Cassette by JezzieG The first step into a new worldAnd time became a memoryAs the beauty of love unfurledLike words written in poetryInto your dream my senses whirledThus enchanted by mysteryAnd in each new day becomes curledIn our magical history Cherry blossom … Continue reading Sicilian Sonnet Notes
I Knew Him
I can’t recall the first time I saw him His grey eyes staring from behind the glass A trick of the eye or was the light dim
Derive (YDWP)
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – my thanks to Sheryl Definition: Derive – v. obtain something from (a specified source) Form: The Fib wordscomefrom thoughtsof somethingor even nothinginstincts and senses combiningthe words into lines, and that’s how verses are derived ©JezzieG2023
Labels (Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge)
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – thank you, Sue and GC Form: Redondilla 3 Pictures shown are not real gameplayThe heart sinks in utter dismayAs blurred pixels scroll on the screenThat’s how it's done and I have been Expecting more from CGINo moneyback and you know whyLike terms and conditions not … Continue reading Labels (Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge)
Saltwater
My soul is driftwood floating on the sea As the sun sets upon my empty heart While my thoughts dream upon what used to be
The Divine Game (#Writephoto)
Inspired by and written for #Writephoto – thank you, KL Form: Redondilla Sixty-four squares of black and whiteThirty-two ready to make warEach piece has its own unique mightPlayers’ strategy at the fore Marching ahead, sorrowful pawnEach forward step carrying their dreadYet they are the backbone of brawnShowing the game the way ahead While rooks stand … Continue reading The Divine Game (#Writephoto)
Baiting His Hook (Simply 6 Minutes)
Inspired by and written for Simply 6 Minutes – thank you, Christine Form: Deplorable Sonnet Isn’t it time you got a new car, mate?So cool on your drive and you won’t be latePick up a girl and take her on a dateTake them away, I have a motorbike I hear what you’re saying, bud, take … Continue reading Baiting His Hook (Simply 6 Minutes)
Neighbourhood Watch (Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge)
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – thank you GC and Sue Form: Quatern Sonnet The curtains twitch across the streetBlue lights and sirens rushing pastAmbulance called for number eightDaft old Fred has taken a fall Beneath a lamp Jess and Mike kissThe curtains twitch across the streetOld Miss Lane is watching … Continue reading Neighbourhood Watch (Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge)
Delicate Kisses (Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge)
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – thank you, Sue and GC Form: Quatern This winter’s night when snowflakes fallSoft, white, glistening in moonlightAnd more follow as drifts begunBy delicate little snowflakes They’re floating down on frosty airThis winter’s night when snowflakes fallLoveliness of purity whiteSwirling over the dirty streets We step … Continue reading Delicate Kisses (Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge)
Moonlit Snow
Late night falling of snow White outside my window
Volcanic Fireburst Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Pentameter or decasyllabicRhyme Scheme: abba ccDD eeDD ff, D lines are feminine rhyme Example Barefoot Youth by Larry Eberhart In summertime I never would wear shoesunless I hiked the rocky mountainside,and nearly all my time was spent outside,and shoes I’d choose most happily to … Continue reading Volcanic Fireburst Notes
Murmurs
Sitting beneath the arch of sweet, scented jasmine the hot summer night murmurs with memories
Dreamy State
Where reality and fantasy blur And the sea water mingles with the sky Lies the one place where I’ll always find her
Descort Notes
The main rule of the Descort poem is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem. Therefore the poem has varying line lengths, and meters, no rhyme, and no refrains. Example Turn of Season by JezzieG No more daffodils sway in the laneThe spring has lost the dancing breezeReplaced … Continue reading Descort Notes
New Toothpaste
On the shelf is a new tube of mint paste A different brand from the one I choose Yet my heart smiles seeing it there so placed
Englyn Byr Cwca Notes
The Englyn Byr Cwca is a Welsh form utilizing both end and internal rhyme. Composed of tercets (3-line stanzas). Line 1 has 7 syllables, line 2 has 10 syllables, and line 3 has 6 syllables. Lines 1 and 3 end rhyme and line 2 rhymes with a syllable within line 3. Example Myth and Legend … Continue reading Englyn Byr Cwca Notes
Woodland Mile
This time of year as the season’s change And winter’s reach seems to disarrange Sunshine so strange as it deceives the eye It is not so warm out here on the range
Espinela Notes
Created by Vincente Espinel, a Spanish poet, the Espinela consists of two stanzas, four end rhymes over 10 lines. The first stanza is a quatrain and the second stanza is a sestet. Each line is tetrameter or 8-syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: abba accddc Example Nights of Romancing by JezzieG How I wish … Continue reading Espinela Notes
Epistle Sonnet Notes
Created by: JezzieGStructure: Triplet, Quintain, Quatrain, and CoupletMeter: Poet’s choiceRhyme Scheme: aba abcde cdcd eeNotes: The order of the end rhymes of the quintain are in any order, giving 120 variants. Example A Birth by JezzieGQuintain - abcde The sonnet for so long has echoed my voiceWith words and lines my lips find hard to … Continue reading Epistle Sonnet Notes
Flowers Desire
Is there a living that can come by Away from the capitalist lie As folks make their way stop by to say hey
Elegy Notes
A song of sorrow or mourning, the Elegy is often for or about someone who has died. However, poets being poets and just that bit contrary on such matters, have also written elegies for the end of something such as a love affair, a holiday, or even a year. Form, meter, and structure are not … Continue reading Elegy Notes
Dechnad Cummaisc Notes
An Irish poetic form, the Dechnad Cummaisc uses quatrains with both end and internal rhymes. The guidelines are as follows: Each stanza consists of four linesLines 1 and 3 are 8 syllables eachLines 2 and 4 contain 4 syllables each and end rhyme with each other.The last word of line 3 rhymes with the middle … Continue reading Dechnad Cummaisc Notes
Dansa Notes
Created by Robert Skelton the Dansa which consists of an opening quintain followed by any number of quatrains. The opening line is also the refrain line and is the final line of every stanza including the first. There are no rules regarding meter, line length or subject. Rhyme scheme: AbbaA ccaA ddaA eeaA and so … Continue reading Dansa Notes
Hands of a Sculptor
In old stories I have heard tell Of marvels in stone that Speak of history and its
Until You Feel Right
Is this what you think our love really is Yelling at me in another staged row In the hope we can make up with a kiss
Deibide Baise Fri Tuin Notes
The Deibide Baise Fri Tuin is an Irish poetic form that uses rhymes with mild swings in line length. The stanzas are quatrains with a couplet rhyme scheme aabb. Lines 1 and 2 end on a two-syllable word and lines 3 and 4 on a monosyllabic word. Line 1 consists of 3 syllables, lines 2 … Continue reading Deibide Baise Fri Tuin Notes
Outsider
sometimes I want to run through the trees in the forest of whispers and breeze like the times before on to the shore and to find my ease watching the seas
Cyhydedd Fer Notes
A Welsh couplet form composed of 8-syllable lines and an end rhyme. Unusually for a Welsh poetic form, it is as simple as that. The couplets can be written as individual stanzas or packed together into longer even lined stanzas Rhyme scheme aa bb cc dd and so on Example Rapture in Twilight by JezzieG … Continue reading Cyhydedd Fer Notes
Call It Art
Do not let love fade into the shadow For it is the language known to the heart The light of the soul where our feelings go
Rhupunt Notes
A Welsh form, the Rhupunt has some variability but is still governed by rigid form rules. Can be written in lines or stanzas of 3 to 5 sectionsEach section has 4 syllablesAll but the final section rhyme with each otherThe final section of each line or stanza rhymes with the final section of the other … Continue reading Rhupunt Notes
Old Cassette
The first step into a new world And time became a memory As the beauty of love unfurled
Cro Cumaisc Etir Casbairdni Ocus Lethrannaigecht Notes
An Irish form the Cro Cumaisc Etir Ocus Lethrannaigecht, despite its long name, is a four-line quatrain poem. Lines 1 and 3 consist of seven-syllables each and lines 2 and 4 of five-syllables each. Lines 1 and 2 end with a three-syllable word and line 2 and 4 with a one-syllable word. The rhyme scheme … Continue reading Cro Cumaisc Etir Casbairdni Ocus Lethrannaigecht Notes
Tennyson-Turner Sonnet Notes
Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Pentameter or DecasyllabicRhyme Scheme: abab cdcd effe fe Example The Edge of Love by JezzieG Three words she said beneath the autumn moon,and touched my soul with softly whispered sighs,a breathless moment cast on mystic runemy mind askew before my heart replies. Above the Northern Lights where winter sleeps,my … Continue reading Tennyson-Turner Sonnet Notes
Explosion
last days we didn’t know laughing and joking as we always did
Morning Blue
Watercolour blue skies of morning light Cups of coffee after working the night
Cyhydedd Hir Notes
A Welsh poetic form, the Cyhydedd Hir consists of 4-line stanzas. Lines 1, 2, and 3 have five syllables each and line 4 has four syllables. Lines 1, 2, and 3 rhyme with each other and line 4 of the first quatrain rhymes with the second. Consecutive stanzas can be connected by the 4th line … Continue reading Cyhydedd Hir Notes
I Know Him Well (WPWC)
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – thank you GC and Suem and my apologies I think this one got itself lost in my editing files Form: Ottava Rima A sense of fun lightens the dayReading memes while drinking teaMixing work with a little playMischief making comes for freeSparkling eyes give nothing … Continue reading I Know Him Well (WPWC)
Assassin
Visitations brought by Karma Are our destiny, our fate Rewards for our deeds lavished
Swannet Notes
Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic linesRhyme Scheme: A1bbA2 cddc effe A1A2 Example Black Bird by JezzieG The lord of prophecy and artistic wordReturning silent life to the war deadBefore he too came to lose his own headThe cauldron-god with wings of a blackbird.For seven years foreseeing Harlech’s fateAnd then four score … Continue reading Swannet Notes
Clogyrnach Notes
A Welsh form the Clogyrnach is a six-line syllabic stanza over an ab rhyme scheme.Lines one and two consist of 8-syllables each, lines three and four are 5-syllables each, and lines five and six are 3-syllables each. Lines five and six can be combined into one line at the poet’s discretion The rhyme scheme is … Continue reading Clogyrnach Notes
For Time and All
I’ll not forget any of your moods From the passive thoughts to noble rage That freed your spirit from the body’s cage For I feel them all when walking in the woods
Mahatma
Divine spirit in a frail human form A King of men with the wisdom of saints To hear his words many followers swarm
Contrapuntal Poems Notes
Influenced by the music world, the Contrapuntal poem is composed of two or more poems intertwined to make one single composition. This is most often done by offering a line of poem A followed by a line from poem B and so on Example Two Quatrains of Autumn’s Contrapuntal by JezzieG Two Quatrains Bright red … Continue reading Contrapuntal Poems Notes
Bite Me, Baby
I see you looking at me tempting you With your thoughts evoking your deep desire Your tongue caressing your lips, it is true
Cethramtu Rannaigechta Moire Notes
The Cethramtu Rannaigechta Moire is an Irish poetic form consisting of quatrains (four-line stanzas). All the lines have three syllables and lines two and four rhyme giving the following structure xxaxxbxxcxxb. Example The Cup by JezzieG China cupHeld in palmSimple tasteTo bring calm Peace of mindWhen tears flowWarming teaLets it go And in joyPerfect supAnd … Continue reading Cethramtu Rannaigechta Moire Notes
Chanso Notes
Chanso poems adapt to the poet’s need and want. A French form, it consists of five or six stanzas with an envoi about half the size of one of the stanzas. The length and structure of the stanzas is at the poets choosing, however, each line of the poem should have the same syllabic length … Continue reading Chanso Notes
Earth Song
night stars awake
Jezzie G 